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Informationen zum Autor Bradford Angier was a journalist and wilderness survivalist who wrote several best-selling books on nature, survival, and living off the land including Wilderness Wife and How to Stay Alive in the Woods:A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere.Vena Angier was a dance director and amateur naturalist who contributed both writing and illustrations to several of her husband’s books. Klappentext One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization. His philosophy has become part of our American heritage, as sound today as the day he first set it down. But his advice on the simple life has seemed too rugged for later generations, brought up in cities, pampered with conveniences and scared of nature.Vena and Brad Angier were fed up with their city bound existence and longtime readers and admirers of Thoreau, they set out to see if his discoveries were valid today. This is the account of two wilderness-loving tenderfeet, who headed for the tall timber on the banks of the Peace River, British Columbia. There near the trading post of Hudson Hope they found their Walden.How they made themselves ‘At Home in the Woods,’ stocked their cabin, met their interesting wilderness neighbors who helped them get settled and who saw them through their first winter makes honest and exciting reading. The city-bred Angiers found out that Thoreau was right when he wrote: "What people say you can not do, you try and find you can." Zusammenfassung Bradford Angier and his wife Vena decide to follow in the footstep of their hero Henry David Thoreau! and forsake their city lives for the rustic simplicity of life in the woods of British Columbia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Adventuring on Life2. The Bride Goes North3. End of the Steel4. Family in the Forest5. How SIlent the North?6. A Home for the Building7. The Latch String8. River Canyon9. The White Wind10. The Farther Places11. What is Cold?12. Chinook13. Hudson's Bay Company14. Aren't You Lonely15. Mail Days16. Is it Really Overrated?17. Food for the Finding18. Bear with Golden Paws19. Living Off the Country20. The Mountain Lake21. Backwoods Wife22. Day at Midnight23. Peril in the Pines24. A River Cruise25. Meat for the Hunting26. Are Men the Best Cooks?27. The River Stills28. Subarctic Christmas29. Rocky Mountain Canyon30. Alaska Highway31. Return to Nature...
